TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.

Cryptic Across

1. Used for making up a strange pie (11) 9. Streams of invective one gets in some professions (7) 10. Illicit photograph? (5) 11. Man-made product found in many London stores (5) 12. A red tongue (7) 13. Reply some Americans

were hoping for (6) 15. One may speak it or

wear it (6) 18. He makes his mark at

times (7) 20. The smallest type of

slate (5) 22. Mince pies having a brown

colour (5) 23. A painstaking

preparation? (7) 24. Bert at speed becomes

splashed with mud (11)

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2. In Peru rallies are held in the country (5) 3. Term in music, and type of bet (7)

4. Possibly run and see to make certain (6) 5. Girls lose their heads – the fools! (5) 6. Driving a point home? (7) 7. This order won’t require attention (5,2,4) 8. Silent dance arranged in secret (11)

14. A high point of religious architecture (7) 16. Be as bad as ever about a

mistake (7) 17. It may be played when not

in form (6) 19. Seagoing vagabond (5) 21. Possibly eager to

correspond (5)

Quick Across

1. Theatrical make-up (11) 9. Rantings (7) 10. Motionless (5) 11. Man-made fabric (5) 12. Slav language (7) 13. Response (6) 15. Sturdy shoe (6) 18. Voter (7) 20. Minimum (5) 22. Shade of brown (5) 23. Painkiller (7) 24. Splashed all over (11)

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2. Rustic (5) 3. A moderately slow tempo (7) 4. Make certain (6) 5. Donkeys (5) 6. Tacking (7) 7. Military command (5,2,4) 8. Secretive (11) 14. Spire (7) 16. Return of illness (7) 17. Absentee (6) 19. Vagrant (5) 21. Concur (5)